setting security bits on UNIX

[Sean McMahon]

Umask is only for setting the default security settings for that user.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
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Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: setting security bits on UNIX


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> chmod 755 filename
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> Hth.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:38:26PM -0700, Ned wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't know how to take off protection from one of my files
> > Tried umask 022, umask 0, etc, nothing works. The chmod command didn't work
either. I don't know the values that I need to put in.
> > The ls -l fileName command should give me:
> > -rwxr-xr-x
> > but not all dashes as it does now.
> > It's an html file that needs to be read and executed by anybody.
> > Please help.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!
> > Ned
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